Ceilidh Arms!

For my international readers a ceilidh is an amazing scottish party with lots and lots and lots of dancing! Ceilidh arms, are what you get after a ceilidh, you know that its been a good ceilidh when you have bruises on your arms and it huts to lift them in line with your shoulders. However the pain is nothing because of the fun you've had at the ceilidh!

Thursday night was the CU ceilidh and last night was the Romania fundraising ceilidh (looks like we'll have raised about £1200 from the ceilidh and someone gave an anonymous donation of £1000! so we're doing well so far with the fundraising!) Both ceilidhs were amazing fun, the CU ceilidh had a lot of international students. Its always fun to teach them the new dances and then also to watched them getting it completely wrong, but having a brilliant time anyway! There will soon be photos on the CU website, so you can check it out! (i'll put a link in for it sometime!)

I have my second crit tomorrow, and have sat all day infront of the computer desperately trying to work. But i am sooooo incredibly tired, didn't get home from my taxi duties until 3am last night! then up for church this morning! At about 8 o clock tonight, i had lost it and was just lying on my bed complaining to my mum, who was very patient and stood chatting to me and claming me down! I can happily say that i think i'm ready for it, if somethings not right im just going to plead ignorance! :D I also have to remember to wear a long sleeved top and not to push up the sleeves as it will reveal my bruised ceilidh arms, and i'd rather not have my tutor wondering if i'm being abused, or even worse finding out that i am still managing to have a social life whilst on placement! i know someone who was marked down for one of her crits, because the tutor found out that she had gone out for dinner!

I've added some more things to my 'to do before i die' list. They are:
* Be at the top of Ben Lomond for sunrise or sunset.
* See the Great Wall of China.
* Visit Amelia in Texas (if she'll have me! hehehe, she might decided to stop all contact with me after she stays here in August!)
* Learn how to transpose music into B flat for the clarinet.

I have started teaching myself about transposing music and have done the verse of 'All My Days' altho i can just about look at the normal music and play it as if i have already transposed it! So that's now just 6 things on my list to do the 4 above as well as using a power drill and doing a parachute jump. The other week i did get to hold a power drill and make it go round, but there was no bit on the end and i didn't get to drill through a bit of wood!

Verse for the blog:~ "You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever." Psalm 30:11-12